Crush and crash: logic of a terrible tomorrow
Communications of the ACM
What we talk about when we talk about context
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Risks of neglecting infrastructure
Communications of the ACM - Organic user interfaces
Defining the role of HCI in the challenges of sustainability
CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Communities, technology, and civic intelligence
Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Communities and technologies
The financial meltdown and computing
Communications of the ACM - The Status of the P versus NP Problem
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Mapping the landscape of sustainable HCI
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Toward an ecological sensibility: tools for evaluating sustainable HCI
CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Examining appropriation, re-use, and maintenance for sustainability
CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Greening through IT: Information Technology for Environmental Sustainability
Greening through IT: Information Technology for Environmental Sustainability
The climate change habitability index
interactions
When the implication is not to design (technology)
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The relationship of action research to human-computer interaction
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
interactions
Social sustainability: an HCI agenda
CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
What if sustainability doesn't work out?
interactions
Changing perspectives on sustainability: healthy debate or divisive factions?
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
POST-SUSTAINABILITY: a CHI sustainability community workshop
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The value of research in creativity and the arts
Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition
Collapse informatics and practice: Theory, method, and design
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) - Special issue on practice-oriented approaches to sustainable HCI
A sustainable design fiction: Green practices
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) - Special issue on practice-oriented approaches to sustainable HCI
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Research in many fields argues that contemporary global industrial civilization will not persist indefinitely in its current form, and may, like many past human societies, eventually collapse. Arguments in environmental studies, anthropology, and other fields indicate that this transformation could begin within the next half-century. While imminent collapse is far from certain, it is prudent to consider now how to develop sociotechnical systems for use in these scenarios. We introduce the notion of collapse informatics---the study, design, and development of sociotechnical systems in the abundant present for use in a future of scarcity---as a complement to ICT4D and mitigation-oriented sustainable HCI. We draw on a variety of literatures to offer a set of relevant concepts and articulate the relationships among them to orient and evaluate collapse informatics work. Observing that collapse informatics poses a unique class of cross-cultural design problems, we sketch the design space of collapse informatics and provide a variety of example projects. We explore points of connection and distinction between collapse informatics and sustainable HCI, ICT4D, and crisis informatics. Finally, we discuss next steps and comment on the potential value of collapse informatics work even in the event that collapse never occurs.